John orme



(No Model.)

J. ORME. APPARATUS FOR ADVERTISING PURPOSES.

No. 452,430. I Patented May 19,1891.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN ORME, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

APPARATUS FOR ADVERTISING PURPOSES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 452,430, dated May 19, 1891.

Application filed August 25, 1890. Serial No. 862,948. (No model.)

To all whom it Uta/y concern:

Be itknown that 1, JOHN ORME, scientific apparatus manufacturer, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at No. 65 Barbican, in the city of London, in that partof Great Britain called England, have invented new and useful Improvements in Improved Apparatus for Advertising Purposes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists in improved apparatus for advertising purposes.

The objects of my improvements are, first, to circulate by gravity a plain or colored liquid interspersed with air-bubbles, through advertising devices constructed of transparent glass tubing; second, to circulate a plain or colored liquid through transparent tubing, in front of which a steneiled or in part transparent advertising device is so placed as to permitlight to pass through it for the purposes of illuminating the same. I attain these objects by means of the apparatus illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front part sectional elevation of complete apparatus for circulating a plain or colored liquid through a transparent tubular advertising device. Fig. 2 is a vertical section upon line A B, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a front elevation, and Fig. at a vertical section upon line D Fi 3 of stencil advertising device.-

Fig. 5 is a plan of nipple of regulating-valve, the cap being removed.

Similar figures refer to similar parts in all the views.

1, Fig. l, is a supply-cistern, formed of thin metal, such as tin or iron, containing the plain or colored liquid 2 for circulating through the tubular advertising device. This may consist of plain water, or aniline, bichromate of pot-,- ash, or other bright color mixed with water or spirit. In the base of the cistern is mounted a. regulating-valve 3, which consists of a screwed nipple 4, having a seat 5 secured by soldering to the cistern. A hole 6 is drilled through the nipple, and a vertical saw out or slot 7 is formed in the nipple, as shown. (See also Fig. 5.) A cap 8 is screwed to nipple 4, from which avertical tube 9 ascends to above the level of the liquid in the cistern 1. The end of tube 9 is fitted with a milled nut 10.

11 is the tubular advertising device, which I have shown as forming the initials of my name. This is constructed of glass tubing from about one-sixteenth of an inchin diameter upward. The tube is bent by heating in a blow-pipe flame into the required letters or other devices, the ends beingleft generally at a right angle to the device, so as to be readily passed through holes 12, made in a silvered glass or wooden backing 13, mounted on case 14, having a glass cover 15. The ends of each letter or device, as the case may be, are connected to the next by rubber tubing 16 and small bends of lead or composition pipe 1'7. The inlet 18 and outlet 19 are connected to the cock 20, screwed or otherwise secured to the base of regulating-valve 3, and to the lower cistern 21 by rubber mounts 16.

The operation of this first part of my invention is as follows: The cock 20 is turned on and the cap 8 Of regulating-valve 3 screwed up or down by means of the milled-headed nut 10, secured to tube 9 attached to it, so as to regulate the fiow of liquid through the vertical slit 7 in the nipple 4.. (See also Fig. 5.) Liquid now passes through the slit 7, and also air by the tube 9, with the result that elongated drops of liquid 22, separated by bubbles of air 23, circulate through the transparent tubular device to the tank 21 beneath,producinga very striking effect.

The second part of my invention consists in circulating a plain or colored liquid through transparent'tubing, in front of which is placed a stencil, out of which the name or other device is cut or punched. See Fig. 4, in which 14 is the frame; 15, the glazed cover; 24:, the stencil; 13, the hacking, into which is inserted a piece of glass 13. The circulating-tubes 25 are of as small diameter as possible, and are bent in the manner shown and supported by blocks 26, glued to the backing. The end of tube 18 is connected to the cook 20, and the outlet-tube 19 to the lower cistern 21, in the manner previously described. Upon turning on the cock 20 the plain or colored liquid interspersed with air-bubbles circulates through the tubes 25, ordinary or artificial light being admitted through the glazed backing, so as to illuminate the letters or equivalent devices cut or punched out of the stencil 24. The stencil-plate may be replaced by one of glass,

the surfaceofwhiclnotherthan that occupied cap 8 with air-tube J, and milled heard it), op-

by the transparent device, being ground, sii- I crating in the manner described.

vered, or rendered opaque by papeigpaint, or In testimony whereof I have hereunto set the like. my hand in the presence of two snhscrlblng I5 5 If desired, the cook 20 can be dispensed with witnesses.

and the regulating-valve 3 alone used. JOHN ()RME.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Let- \Vitnesses: tors Patent of the United States, is II. XV. \V. GRAIN,

The combination, in or with transparent 1o tubularadvertising devices, of the regulatingvalve having screwed nozzle 4, slit 7 therein,

J. M. BoULLo, I Clerks to file-9s. Grain LC' Sons, Notaries, 4:6

Lombard St, London. 

